9th Circuit: Future Attorney Fees Count Toward CAFA Amount-In-Controversy

Mealey's (August 22, 2018, 2:16 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — In light of Chavez v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ precedents, future attorney fees must be included when a court is deciding whether the Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) amount-in-controversy is met, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Aug. 8 (Grant Fritsch v. Swift Transportation Company of Arizona, LLC, No. 18-55746, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22080)....